Device for reflecting the concealed sides of cards.



W. T. PEOKHAM. DEVICE FOR REFLEUTING THE CONCEALED SIDES OP CARDS.APPLICATION FILED JULY15,1.J07.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed July 15, 1907.

Serial No. 383,867.

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM; T. Pncx- HAM, .of Providence, in the countyof Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new anduseful lfhiprovernents in Devices for Reflecting the Concealed Sides ofCards; and I do hereby 'declare the following Specification, taken inconnection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same,to be a 1, clear, and exact description thereof.

The invention relates to an improved device for reflecting the concealedportion of objects laced u on it and is particularly designs and a aptedfor use in reading card-indexes. In certain uses of the s stem ofcard-indexes, it is the practice to fi 1 one side of the card and thenreverse-said card and fill the other side. -Where said cardindexes areused for keeping records, as in the case of meter-cards, it is necessaryin transferring the record from one side of the card to the other tocarry over certain data. To do this the card has to be turned back andforth several times, as the side of the card with the record onisfconcealed',

while the other side of written upon.

It is the object of the-present invention to provide a device upon whichthe card may be placed so that the' record side of the card willbe'refiected through a system of mirrors to the view of the persontransferring the record to the other or blank side of said card.

To this end the invention consists of the novel device hereinafterdescribed and claimed, reference being had to-the accompanying drawings,in which-' igure 1 is a perspective view of my improved device. Fig. 2is a side view of the same with a card in position thereon. Fig. 3 is anend view. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view. Figs. 5 and 6 arediagrammatic sectional views of the device with a card in positionthereon. Figs. 7 and 8 are plan views of a card.

-Referring to the drawings, A represents a rectangular box-likestructure constructed of wood or any other suitable material and havingsides 1 and 2 and bottom 3. The rear end 4 and the front end 5 of thebox A the card is being are preferably formed of transparent glass andthe front end 5 is beveled, shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

A and extending the entire length thereof versed Arranged within the boxare two inclined has its lower edge beveled Patented Ma -24,1910.

and resting upon the bottom 3 of-the box A,

and its upper edge is also beveled and rests against the side 1. Themirror 7 is arranged substantially at right angles to the mirror 6,having its lower ed e beveled and-resting upon the bottom 3 oft e box Aand abutting against the lower edge of the mirror 6, an its upper edgeis also beveled and rests against the side 2 of said box. The rear endsof the mirrors-6 and 7 abut a inst the rear end. 4 of the box A, and theiant ends are beveled and abut against the front end 5 of said box, Asuitable transparent cover 8 is set into recesses in the inner up eredges of the sides 1 and 2, so asto be. ush with the upper edges of saidsides, as shown in Fi 4:.

The device is used in the following manner. i The operator laces the boxin front of him with the beveled end facing him. If now the card B shownin F ig. 7 is placed transversely upon the cover 8 in the position shownin Fig. 6, with the printed side downward, the printing on said cardwill be reso as to read backward, as shown in Fig. 8, but asthe raysfrom said printed side strike one of the inclined mirrors, they arereflected across to the other of said inclined mirrors, as shown indotted lines in Fig. (3, and the printing becomes again re- \QIrBCl, sothat when viewed in the mirrors through the top or beveled end of thebox, the printed side of said card is in the form shown in Fi 7 of thedrawings. Thus with a box 0 proper dimensions the entire side of acomplicated meter or index-card will be reflected through the inclinedmirrors and within view of the operator while writing upon the other orexposed side of said card.

It sometimes happens that meter or indexcards are made so that when thecards are turned over or reversed the printing upon the under orconcealed side of said cards will be upside down. In using the devicefor reading the concealed side of such a card, the box is turned aquarter .way around, or so that one of the sides is facing the operator.The card is placed ion itudinally upon the cover 8 and the rays 0 therinting will be reflected, as shown in otted lines in Fig. 5, and theprinted matter will be reflected right side up and in full view of theoperators transparent and and'cover, and two mirrors withm saidbgx-like-structure, the lower edges of said mirrors being beveled end Iabutting against each other, the up redge .of one of said mirrors be ngbeve ed and restin Egsinst the inner upper edge of one side 0 Reid box,and the upper edge of the other oi said mirrorebeing heveied and restingegains'tthe inner upper edge of the opposite side of said box. p

2. An article of the class described, comprising a bbx-like structurehaving both ends transparent and one of said ends beveled, a transparentcover set in recesses formed in the inner upper edges of the sides ofsaid box-like structure, and two mirrors within ssid box-hike structure,the lower edges of names alimony-being beveled and sbuttin gamst eachether and upon the bottom 0 a bolt,- the upper edge-of one of saidmirrors sgamstthe innerupperedgeof one -s1de 0 said box, and the upperedge of the other of said mirrors a instjthe inane!- upper edge of theopposite s' I not said a e I v 3, An article of the class"descri-bed,comprising a box-like structure rovided with a transparent beveled endan a transparent cover and two mirrors'arranged within said box-likestructure, the lower edges of said mirrors converging toward each otherand thfi upper edges thereof diverging from each 0t er. 1

WILLIAM T. PECKEiIALL Witnesses: W. H. Tnmnsron, J. H. Trwne'mN.

